Article

Nadezhda Yu. Kirillova, PhD, Senior Researcher of the Institute of Ecology of Volga River Basin RAS – branch of the Samara Federal Research Scientific Center RAS (445003, Russia, Samara Region, Togliatti, Komzina Street, 10); iD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4585-8970; e-mail: parasitolog@yandex.ru
Alexander A. Kirillov, PhD, Senior Researcher of the Institute of Ecology of Volga River Basin RAS – branch of the Samara Federal Research Scientific Center RAS (445003, Russia, Samara Region, Togliatti, Komzina Street, 10); iD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4374-8858; e-mail: parasitolog@yandex.ru

Kirillova N.Yu., Kirillov A.A. 2024. First finding of Macyella apodemi (Digenea, Pleurogenidae) in Russia. Nature Conservation Research 9(4): 112–114. https://dx.doi.org/10.24189/ncr.2024.025

This paper presents data on the trematode Macyella apodemi recorded for the first time in Russia. Three mature specimens have been found in the diverticula of the small intestine of Apodemus uralensis (Rodentia, Muridae) in the Mordovia State Nature Reserve (European Russia) in 2022. Here, a detailed morphological and morphometrical description of this digenean species is provided. Apodemus uralensis is noticed as a new host for Macyella apodemi.

Apodemus, Mordovia State Nature Reserve, parasitic worms, rodents, trematodes, Ural field mouse

Received: 09.08.2024. Revised: 12.09.2024. Accepted: 13.09.2024.

Genov T. 1984. Helminths of insectivores and rodents in Bulgaria. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. 348 p.
Jancev J.I. 1974. Macyella vassilevi n. sp. (Lecithodendriidae) from Apodemus sylvaticus in Bulgaria. Comptes rendus de l'Academie Bulgare des Sciences 27: 89–92.
Jourdane J., Triquell A. 1973. Digenes parasites d'Apodemus sylvaticus (L.) dans la partie orientale des Pyrenees. Description de Macyella apodemi sp. n. Bulletin du Museum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle. Zoologie 117(91): 351–361.
Kanarek G., Zaleśny G., Sitko J., Tkach V.V. 2017. The systematic position and structure of the genus Leyogonimus Ginetsinskaya, 1948 (Platyhelminthes: Digenea) with comments on the taxonomy of the superfamily Microphalloidea Ward, 1901. Acta Parasitologica 62(3): 617–624. DOI: 10.1515/ap-2017-0075
Montoliu I., Feliu C. 1986. Macyella apodemi Jourdane et Triquell, 1973 (Trematoda: Lecithodendriidae), parasito intestinal de Eliomys quercinus Linnaeus, 1766 (Rodentia: Gliridae) en el Pirineo catalan. Circular Farmaceutica 290: 11–16.
Ribas A., Casanova J., Miquel J., Fons R., Guisset C., Feliu C. 2005. On the fauna of digenetic trematodes, parasites of small mammals, in the Natural Reserves of Py and Mantet (Oriental Pyrenees, France). Helminthologia 42(2): 71–75.